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Less than favourable racing conditions with little or no wind for most of the day meant there was a subdued / serene mood to the annual Round the Island Race this year. With no clouds in the sky either it was short on dramatic photo opportunities, but I had in mind that the calm conditions […]

Winters day at Freshwater Bay by Jason Swain. It was a beautiful fresh late December day at Freshwater Bay on the Isle of Wight yesterday. It began for me with some surfing in the morning, then a bit of photographing some surfing at lunchtime. After that I had a little walk with the family and grabbed […]

West Wight Beaches – Colwell Bay Panorama by Jason Swain. Something a little different here, a panorama shot with the sigma 50-500mm telephoto lens, great for capturing lots of detail. And a composition with a slight nod to the impressionists. Another scene embracing the arrival of autumn at Colwell Bay. I think this one really shows […]

Isle of Wight Model Railway Time Travel by Jason Swain. This is a Journey through time and space…. (shamelessly borrowed from the Mighty Boosh) Armed only with a 50mm f/1.2 lens, Photoshop, Antique Tintype & Daguerreotype Textures (Click here to visit Flypaper Textures.) and a Model Railway (Fort Victoria Model Railway on the Isle of Wight) I’ve […]

Surfing Isle of Wight by Jason Swain. “Lets go surfin now Everybodys learning how” I wanted to create a few different ‘surf shots’ looking a bit more at the people and locations and beach culture rather than just purely the act of wave-riding (which i do focus on a lot on my soul-surfing website). So […]

SUP and Sail at Compton Beach by Jason Swain. Looking back to last spring in the photo archives and I found this composition i liked from the stand-up paddle board (SUP) photo-shoot at Compton Bay, Isle of Wight. It was taken on a gloriously sunny and warm spring afternoon at Compton beach back in March 2012, […]

Lighthouses of the West Wight by Jason Swain. Going back in time with a dip in the archives to an image taken from the top deck of the Wightlink ferry on a return journey to the Isle of Wight. Shot on a beautiful calm late September day. With the needles lighthouse in the far distance (to […]

Isle of Wight Steam Railway by Jason Swain. I’ve used a lot of poetic license with this edit of the Santa Special at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway to create an old and damaged vintage postcard effect. Seen here at Smallbrook station, during the Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce day out. William was […]

Bembridge Lifeboat Pea-Souper by Jason Swain. Is it creative editing or have i got my Time Machine out again? Time traveling back to the old Bembridge Lifeboat Station on a pea-souper of a day in the late 1900’s. If it was creative editing, i might have made a duotone version in lightroom, and then added some flypaper […]

Bembridge Lifeboat Reflections by Jason Swain. Wild and windy weather on the Isle of Wight coast here today, and I will have some new shots from that soon, but for now its a bit more serenity. This time back over at the Bembridge lifeboat station in 2009, dug up after a few years and gently […]

DisSymmetry at Bembridge Lifeboat Station by Jason Swain. Following on from yesterdays visit, once again i’m time traveling back to 2009, but after the quietly surreal beach scene, i’ve gone for a more deliberately challenging composition today. I’ve already shot plenty here with the classic ratios, so i wanted to try something different and use […]

Silhouetted walkers and dramatic skies at the Tennyson Memorial on Tennyson Down, Isle of Wight By Jason Swain. Dipping in the photo archives and looking back to one of my earliest shots on flickr, and having a play with Lightroom 4 and Photoshop CS6 to see if i can breathe a bit of new life […]

When Turner painted Alum Bay by Jason Swain. Back to the Isle of Wight photo archives and 2007 for some time-traveling fun with a painterly edit of Alum Bay (using flypaper textures) (Click here to visit Flypaper Textures.) I’m looking for a turneresque mood here with the golden tones and visible brush strokes. The original […]

A photo taken on yesterday mornings surf check at Compton Bay, Isle of Wight by Jason Swain. In the end the waves were too small for surfing and it was also flipping cold (just below freezing). But it was also a really clear day with that beautiful low and watery winter light, so i had a little […]

Crabbing at Bembridge by Jason swain. Another Monday, and it’s another rush hour on the Isle of Wight, this time the crabbing boat in action at Bembridge. That big wheel, it just keeps on turning 🙂 Shot looking east from the most easterly part of the Isle of Wight. Finally edited 3 years later with […]

Rush hour at Bembridge by Jason Swain. Time traveling back to the old Bembridge Lifeboat Station in 2009 and taking a leisurely stroll along the beach on horseback. Shot with the Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens on my old Canon 400D body and edited 3 years later with Lightroom 4 and some flypaper textures in Photoshop […]